Pin-ticket.



L. GITTELSOHN.

PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1912.

1,1 1 3,6 1 1 Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

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LOUIS err'rnnsoriu, oronrcaoo, ILLINOIS.

PIN-TICKET;

- Specification of IiettersQEatent Patellte d oct. 13, 1914:.

, Application eieciiui 15,1912. ser ainavosass." 1 1 To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS G-rrrnnsorm,a ritizen of the United States, residin at Chicago, in the county of Cook and tate of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Tickets, of which the following is'a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

l'tty invention relates to pin tickets. Its object is to provide an economical device of this character readily attached to and removed from fabrics of various kinds, having capacity for manipulation in various ways and at great speed to secure the ticket or tag tightly to cloth and other fabrics so that it cannot be loosened, knocked off, or defaced in the ordinary handling of such goods and to dispose the sharp pin points so that there will be little or no danger of injury in attaching and removing the device.

A further object is to so dispose of the pin points that there will be little .or no danger of injury to the fingers orto other fabrics which may come in contactwith the pins after they are set into. the fabric.

In general the invention consists in pro-' viding a pin having the usual ticket loop with a plurality of diverging prongs, curved or bent sharply at the ends to bring the point of each prong into substantial alinement with the junction of the prong and loop.

the fabric to obtain by means of manipulation of the curved prongs any one of several interlocking engagements between the ticket and the fabric, which maybe Varied according to the nature of the fabric or according to the skill and pleasure of the oporator.

in the accompanying drawings I have.

of. Fig. 3 illustrates the position assumed by the parts when the prongs are thrust through elastic or pile fabric to embed or counterslnk the ticket therein. 4 illustrates the method of usin the prongs to make a tight and close attachment of the ticket and fabric.

in the drawings A indicates a tag, card or y This arrangement enables the operator, after t-hrustmg the prongs through ither ticket having the"perforation, 6 and i through theseperforations are thrust the two prongs 8 and 9 of the bendable pin B having a horizontal loop piece 10 adapted to lie flatupon the upper surface over on the ticket A and preferably made of fine malleable and elastic wire oppositely looped or bentback at the top at 11 and 12' under and parallel to the loop piece 10. The prongs 8 and S) are inclined from top to bottom away from each other and the lower end of each prong is sharpened and curved or bent in an are at 13 and 14 so that the point is substantially in vertical alinement with the junction point of the prong and loop. In attaching the pin to a fabric C, the prongs are thrust through the fabric and then bent up to engage or hook into the underside of the fabric. The points themselves enter into the fabric and thus lock the ticket in front as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 8 illustrates by the arrows at b and c the points and direction of pressure exerted by the operator in the hooking manipula- I am aware that many modifications of ny invention will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art and I do not wish to be understood as limiting myselfto the preferred form described and shown except as required by the appended claims.

portion inclined from the normal to said ticket and a bent pointed end, the extremity of 'saidend being disposed in substantially vertical alinement with the intersection of the prong and body portion, whereby said prongs may be pushed through a fabric without danger of injury to either the pron s or fabric and bent at their intersections" with the body portion only to enthe ends of the prongs in the fabric.

2. A. pin ticket comprising a ticket, and

pin member provided with a top portion embracing a portion of said ticket and having a pair ofprongs attached thereto bent or curved toward each other at their lower extremities, the remainder of each of said prongs being substantially stralght and normally extended away from each other ticket, a Wire 1901), theends of which aredisposed through said ticket, and flexible wire prongs attached to each of said ends, the lower extremity of said prongs being sharpened and curved or bent sharply toward each other, said prongs being inclined away from each other so as to bring the 15 points of the prongs and the junctures between the prongs and loop into substantial vertical alinement whereby said prongs may be thrust through the fabric, crossed and hooked in the under side thereof to remov- 20 ably secure said pin ticket to said fabric.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS GITTELSOHN.

Vitnesses:

ROBERT CATHERwooD, LUCY WAnHAMs WRIGHT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

